Full Description
A captivating companion to a major retrospective of Josefina Auslender's drawings at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
This stunning book offers the first comprehensive exploration of Argentinian contemporary artist Josefina Auslender. Despite her prolific mastery of drawing and abstraction in graphite, colored pencil, and ink, Auslender has received disproportionately little attention by critics, scholars, and art institutions-until now.
This survey of Auslender's artistic career spans decades and continents, conveying her lifelong passion for creating new worlds through art. By connecting the artist's work with key moments in her professional career, intersecting with major global events, the accessible text examines issues of gender, war, grief, trauma, diaspora-and how we all, in our own ways, grapple with feelings of isolation and connection, otherness, and belonging.
Contents
Foreword
Drawing Herself Free: Rediscovering Josefina Auslender
Cassandra Mesick Braun Connections and Ruptures: Sketching a Life
Cassandra Mesick Braun Linear Thinking: Josefina Auslender and Argentine Art
Daniel R. Quiles In Her Words: An Oral History with Josefina Auslender
Cassandra Mesick Braun Genesis: Untitled Early Works and The Magic Space
Sarah Bouchard Los Caprichos
Cassandra Mesick Braun Voyage
Pilar Saavedra- Weis Bodies of Evidence: Los Cuerpos
Véronique Plesch Plates
Checklist
Contributors
Index
